Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 2, of Julius What is the effect of Cassius's question on Brutus?
Caesar.
BRUTUS. What means this shouting? I do fear the
Brutus begins to distrust Cassius's opinion of
Caesar.
people
Choose Caesar for their king.
Brutus tells Cassius that Caesar should not be
king.

CASSIUS. Ay, do you fear it?
Then must I think you would not have it so.
Brutus supports Caesar's crowning as king of
Rome.
BRUTUS. I would not, Cassius; yet I love him well.
Brutus supports Cassius's plan to become king.
But wherefore do you hold me here so long?
What is the effect of Cassius’s question on Brutus?

A) Brutus begins to distrust Cassius’s opinion of Caesar.
B) Brutus tells Cassius that Caesar should not be king.
C) Brutus supports Caesar’s crowing as king of Rome.
D) Brutus supports Cassius’s plan to become king.